North & West Coast

Quintessential Highland country such as this, with breathtaking emptiness, a wild, fragile beauty and single-track roads, is a rarity on the modern, crowded, highly urbanised island of Britain. You could get lost up here for weeks – and that still wouldn’t be enough time.

Rock formations in Sango Bay near Cape Wrath © Craig Easton / Lonely Planet

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